Carnegie Mellon University: Experiments Helping to Understand the LOS Effect in VANET

By chance I discovered a very interesting web link from Rui Meireles, a PhD stundent from Carnegie Mellon Unisercity and University of Porto.

http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~rmeirele/los/

It's about the experiments that Rui and his colleagues conducted to discover the effect of vehicles as obstacles in VANET. The results were obtained from field test in real traffic environments in downtown and highway. On the web page, vehicles' realtime position and Received Signal Strength Indication (RSSI) and Packet Delivery Ratio (PDR) are shown through animation in together with the cam recording on the sender vehicle.

Following Rui's link I also discovered the research project "DRIVE-IN" at the Information and Communication Technologies Institute (ICTI) and the Carnegie Mellon University - Portugal Program (Carnegie Mellon|PORTUGAL) by the Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia (FCT).

The DRIVE-IN project focuses on developling geo-optimized VANET protocols, investigating distributed intelligent and collaborative car routing algorithms and exploring more application and services on the VANET platform. As research methodolgies highly efficient software simulation and a real VANET deployment consisting up to 500 texis in the city of Porto are planned.

Have fun! ;-)